Kansas Citians, Including A Young Walt Disney, Found Plenty Of Fun At Electric Park

The second Electric Park in Kansas City was an even bigger success than the first, with rides and slides and even an alligator farm when it opened in 1907. One of the amusement park’s patrons was a young Walt Disney.
“Kansas City’s Coney Island.” That’s what Electric Park liked to call itself.
The amusement park first opened in 1899 in the East Bottoms as a way for the beer-brewing Heim Brothers to sell more suds.
It worked. So well that by 1906, they headed off to a new location at 47th & Lydia just north of Brush Creek. With 29 acres now at their disposal (but no beer sales, thanks to new city rules) the owners swung for the fences-populating the park with roller coasters, rides, a pool and a lake, shooting galleries, and apparently an alligator farm.
It was this second location that a young Kansas Citian named Walt Disney rode to by streetcar from his home on Bellefontaine Avenue.
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